| Students learn how to land the perfect job
Conducting a fantastic interview to land that first job should be a landmark achievement in a young adult's life. Still, there remains the question of whether to negotiate following your offer and how to go about doing so.
Kim Holladay, director of BBA Career Services, conducted a job offer negotiation workshop on Thursday evening called "Deal...or No Deal: Offer Consideration & Negotiation" to advise SMU undergrads from any school on what they can expect when entering the professional environment.
Holladay would like students to remember that knowledge is power when considering salary discussions. The better informed you are of competitive offers and local salary averages in a particular field, the smoother your requests will sail across the negotiating table.
OKI enters into negotiation talks for the acquisition of Visual Nexus
Guildford, UK - 4th April 2007: The board of directors of TCB Technologies Corporation have today agreed to enter into detailed negotiation with Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. Corporation for the transfer of TCBs Visual Nexus business. The Visual Nexus video, voice, and data collaboration software solution was developed by TCB Technologies Corporation, a publicly traded Japanese corporation. Shipments began in 2003 and a subsidiary operation, Visual Nexus Limited, was established in the United Kingdom in 2004. The Guildford based HQ operation helped to transform the solution to meet the needs of non-Japanese customers and to market and sell this outside of Japan. Visual Nexus is an effective, fully industry standard compliant, online face-to-face business communications system, compatible with customers existing video systems.
Parking on city's agenda Businesses spur petitions for solution
Business owners aren't so sure those changes will completely resolve the problem, but they are sure it's time to take action.“It seems like an appropriate way to facilitate change," Schmiechen said of the petition, adding that, “I do feel for them to not have parking in front of their businesses. The parking ramp proposal is a really good one and I hope we're able to arrive at mutually agreeable solutions."Newnham said that although parking is a problem, it's a good problem and it's offering the positive opportunity to effect change.“We are so fortunate to be at this point, but we are there now. This is a perfect opportunity to make it happen, because there is political will to do it now. People want action and sometimes that's what it takes to get things done," he said. Comments .
Hammonds adds lucky 13 to the partnership
Mark Fraser, a partner and head of the regional construction arbitration and insurance practice at Asian giant Johnson Stokes & Master, joins Hammonds' built environment group, which encompasses construction, property, PFI and planning. He is relocating to the UK after having spent the past six years in Johnson's Bangkok office, where he specialised in contentious and non-contentious construction law. Fraser has been chair of, and legal adviser to, the British Chamber of Commerce in Thailand since 2003 and is a director of the Board of Trade of Thailand and a member of the Thai Commercial Arbitration Committee. Also joining the firm is PFI partner Jane Staveley from Beachcroft in London, who specialises in housing and health PFI. Hammonds' built environment group head Paul Groobey said: "Jane has an incredibly strong track record in PFI work, which will add depth to the firm's current capability.
SEC looks at alternative to shareholder lawsuits
The SEC is looking at a new way to resolve costly class-action lawsuits from shareholders. One possibility is to switch to an arbitration system, much like investors use if they have a conflict with a broker. With the dollar value of settlements related to shareholder lawsuits at an all-time high, many worry that the litigation may be frightening companies into listing their securities in other countries. According to the Wall Street Journal, (subscription required) "Critics of these lawsuits say multimillion-dollar settlements have lined the pockets of lawyers at the expense of shareholders, created burdensome costs, and frightened off companies that might otherwise have chosen to list their stocks in the U.S." Of course, any suggestion of moving away from class-action lawsuits will draw the ire of trial lawyers, but I would be interested in hearing more about resolving disputes through arbitration.
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